Propaganda for children

China is changing at such a rapid pace, the old socialist realism and patriotic romanticism of the '50s through '80s is receding from memory and practice. Occasionally, I find relics of that past, such as these examples.

When properly trained (or shall we say indoctrinated), children are the shock troops of ideology. Benito Mussolini was not the only Fascist dictator to target children as the future of his power base (here is an example from Franco’s Spain), but he acutely understood, as did the Roman church, the need to control the...